Tobacco-pouch.



W. R. BUXTON.

v TOBACCO POUCH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5.1917.

1,262,634. Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

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'WARNE R R. BUX'ION, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOBACCO-POUCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

Application filed July 5, 1917. Serial No. 178,776.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARNER R. BUXTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pouches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tobacco pouches.

An object of the invention is to provide a pouch of convenient shape and of substantially flat form, wherein the usual relatively large opening for filling the pouch and a closure flap for the opening is provided, together with another opening relatively small in comparison with the first opening and a foldable closure flap for the second opening, the last named fiap being adapted to be extended from the pouch to form a discharge trough for the second opening and being characterized in that it is of a size and shape adapted for insertion in the bowl of a pipe to conveniently fill the latter.

Other objects and advantages will "appear in the following description and in the appended claims.

The invention, in an embodiment at present preferred, is shown for illustrative purposes in the accompanying drawings; in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational view showing the closed pouch;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the discharge opening with its closure flap in extended trough forming position, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the pouch illustrating its use in the filling ofa tobacco pipe.

Referring to these drawings, the pouch may be conveniently made up from two pieces 1 and 2 of suitable material, preferably leather or the like. The front forming piece 1 is, in the embodiment illustrated, of substantially semi-oval shape, and the back forming member 2 is of similar size and shape except that it is provided in addition with integrally formed upper and lower flap forming extensions 3 and 4, respectively. The two halves land 2 of the pouch are arranged face to face and suitably secured, one to another, as by stitches 5, along their coincident marginal portions, which includes all of the curved marginal are squeezed together.

portion except for a relatively small and centrally arranged portion 6. There are thus, upper and lower non-coincident marginal portions of members 1 and 2 which are unsecured whereby upper and lower pouch openings are provided. The upper opening is relatively large and, as illustrated, may extend across the full width of the pouch, while the lower is very smallin comparison with the upper opening. The upper and lower pouch openings may be separately closed, as shown in Fig. 1, by the flaps 3 and 4 which may be held in pouch closing position by snap fasteners 7 and 8, respectively, or any other suitable means.

In use, the pouch is filled by means of the large upper opening in the usual manner, but in removing tobacco from the pouch the relatively small opening is used in con- Thus, when fastener 8 is released, flap 4 may be moved into the position shown in Fig. 2, wherein it forms a continuation or extension of the back member 2 beyond the bottom of the pouch.

The flap 4, when positioned as in Fig. 2, will readily assume a desirable trough forming shape, when the side edges of the pouch It is to be noted that no special construction of the flap is necessary to obtain this result, but on the contrary the flap is'so arranged with respect to other parts of the pouch that there is anatural tendency for it to assume a curved or concave cross sectional shape. Thus, the contents of the pouch cause the walls 1 and 2 thereof to bulge outwardly intermediate the stitched edges and the natural bulging obtained in a pouch of this character is made use of to advantage in the present invention since the flap 4, being an integral part of the back wall 2, tends to assume a similar bulge so far as is permitted by the stitching 5., Thus, the flap 4 is not only of the requisite size for insertion in a pipe bowl, but it is also curved so that its cross sectional shape conforms approximately with the curvature of the bowl.

The flap, therefore, may lie substantially contiguous with a ortion of the inner periphery of a pipe as shown in Fig. 3, in which position tobacco may be conveniently discharged into the pipe bowl. The flow or" tobacco down the trough forming flap i may be controlled by tilting the pouch and also by the degree of pressure applied to the walls or the pouch. As the lower part of the bowl becomes nearly full, the pouch is tilted toward the horizontal to decrease the flow. Any tobacco remaining in the trough may be readily returned to the pouch by tilting the lower end upwardly while still maintaining the pressure on the sides of the pouch.

The pouch, therefore is particularly advantageous, not only on account of convenience 1n filling a tobacco pipe, but also on account of the arrangement, whereby the form, having front and rear walls of flexible material connected to form therebetween a container having a relatively large filling opening and a relatively small discharge opening, a separate closure flap for each opening, the flap for the discharge opening being arranged for extension from the pouch and so constructed that, when extended, it may be inserted in the bowl of a tobacco pipe, the flap being arranged to bend into curved cross-sectional trough forming shape when the walls of the pouch are squeezed together, whereby the trough may fit within and conform to the curvature of the pipe the la tor. 1

2. A tobacco pouch of substantially flat form having front and rear walls connected to form the-rebetween a relatively large and a relatively small opening, a closure flap for each opening comprising a portion on one wall foldable over the other wall in overlapping relation, the flap for the small opening arranged when extended from the pouch to form a trough for its opening and adapted to be inserted in the bowl of a tobacco pipe, the last-named wall adjacent the small opening having an edge which curves from its central portion on each side toward the flap when in extended position and which is substantially tangential at its central portion with the line of fold of said trough forming flap.

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